We have to realize that not everyone observes Christmas as anything other than a "saturnalia" - a pagan festival. From Wordnik.com. [Archive 2006-12-01] Reference
The holiday was originally "saturnalia" or "yule" depending on where you lived. From Wordnik.com. [CNN.com] Reference
Here we have the very saturnalia of common-sense. From Wordnik.com. [A Mother's List of Books for Children] Reference
At July 22, 2009 3:09:00 PM EDT, io saturnalia! said. From Wordnik.com. [What the Gates story says about race and culture] Reference
At July 22, 2009 7:15:00 PM EDT, io saturnalia! said. From Wordnik.com. [White House blocks visitor logs] Reference
At August 5, 2009 10:34:00 PM EDT, io saturnalia! said. From Wordnik.com. [More on Olbermann, Greenwald and Stelter] Reference
One of the damnedest in our whole saturnalia of the accursed. From Wordnik.com. [The Book of the Damned] Reference
But why on earth hurl public funds at these tarnished saturnalia?. From Wordnik.com. [Boycott This and Every Subsequent Olympics « Christopher Colaninno] Reference
The history of the day, saturnalia, is completely irrelevant today. From Wordnik.com. [TEXAS FAITH: Does materialism compromise the holiday season? | RELIGION Blog | dallasnews.com] Reference
The saturnalia, subdued for a moment, threatened at times to renew itself. From Wordnik.com. [The Magic Skin] Reference
A regular Derby-day crowd having a religious saturnalia, -- that is what it is. From Wordnik.com. [Lippincott's Magazine, August, 1885] Reference
It became a saturnalia and jubilee for the long, half-starved slaves, men and women. From Wordnik.com. [Khartoum Campaign, 1898 or the Re-Conquest of the Soudan] Reference
It would be as well if you took advantage of the present — er — saturnalia to escape. From Wordnik.com. [Witch-Doctors] Reference
Even on such a night of saturnalia as this of the Befana very little drunkenness is to be seen. From Wordnik.com. [Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 17, No. 100, April, 1876] Reference
She had longed to go out and stand on the wind-buffeted pier and take her part in this saturnalia of the elements. From Wordnik.com. [The Land of Promise] Reference
The prognathous race require government also in their religious exercises, or they degenerate into fanatical saturnalia. From Wordnik.com. [Cotton is King, and Pro-Slavery Arguments Comprising the Writings of Hammond, Harper, Christy, Stringfellow, Hodge, Bledsoe, and Cartrwright on This Important Subject] Reference
It found us in lucid intervals conjuring up visions of a beer saturnalia when -- alas! when the barrels were full again. From Wordnik.com. [The Siege of Kimberley] Reference
Still and all that, we ought to at least be addressing the dire fiscal consequences of the President's revenue saturnalia. From Wordnik.com. [The Chimes at Midnight] Reference
With Twelfth-tide this fair vision suffers a metamorphosis, blazoning out into the paganish saturnalia of bonfires, which in. From Wordnik.com. [Christmas: Its Origin and Associations Together with Its Historical Events and Festive Celebrations During Nineteen Centuries] Reference
They had their bacchanalia, and we have our wakes, answering to them; they their saturnalia, and we our carnivals and Shrove. From Wordnik.com. [Leviathan] Reference
Paris; I had heard of the saturnalia of all ages, of every imaginable orgy, from Babylon to Rome, from the temple of Priapus to the. From Wordnik.com. [The French Immortals Series — Complete] Reference
Dixon's eventual explosion of drunken defiance is something more than an enjoyable fiasco or — ancient Rome again — saturnalia. From Wordnik.com. [The Man of Feeling] Reference
The saturnalia commenced on Christmas evening, at the Humboldt, which, on that very day, had passed into the hands of new proprietors. From Wordnik.com. [The Shirley Letters from California Mines in 1851-52] Reference
It is this hero-yearning, and thus hero worship, that we now see in the saturnalia of Barack Obama images and chatter across the globe. From Wordnik.com. [Stuart Whatley: Obama in the Era of Heroes and Fallen Angels] Reference
Mencken's point is well taken that in excess anything -- whether drinks or platitudes -- becomes "a debauch, a saturnalia, a delirium!". From Wordnik.com. [The Katharine Hepburn of Cocktails] Reference
HE'S a whole saturnalia in himself, once he is roused. From Wordnik.com. [Women in Love] Reference
And I remember that she seemed to describe afterwards a sort of saturnalia. From Wordnik.com. [The Good Soldier] Reference
The saturnalia that succeeded the capture of the castaway had come to a close. From Wordnik.com. [The Boy Slaves] Reference
Himalayas and the Gobi, Europe indulged in a wild saturnalia to celebrate its own doom. From Wordnik.com. [Greener Than You Think] Reference
But the chance for a grand saturnalia is best when Mr. Smith goes from home for a day or two. From Wordnik.com. [Trials and Confessions of a Housekeeper] Reference
The saturnalia is brought to a close, when all become so intoxicated they can neither tell story nor sing song. From Wordnik.com. [The Death Shot A Story Retold] Reference
All goes to sixes and sevens -- an universal saturnalia seems to be proclaimed in my peaceful and orderly family. From Wordnik.com. [The Antiquary — Volume 02] Reference
It was into the thick of this saturnalia that the great Tartarin came straying one evening to find oblivion and heart's ease. From Wordnik.com. [Tartarin of Tarascon] Reference
In the midst of this saturnalia wandered poor Tartarin, who had come that evening in search of forgetfulness and peace of heart. From Wordnik.com. [Tartarin De Tarascon] Reference
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